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User Account Control is a technology on Windows Vista and up that improves security on systems by limiting processes to standard user privileges until an administrator manually authorizes privilege elevation.

I was wondering if there is a way to change the use account control settings for a standard user in win 8. As an admin I can change my own settings to "never notify" but whenever other users try to ...

I use Eudora (an older email client program).
When I open my shortcut to Eudora, a User Account Control dialog appears asking me if I want to allow the program to make changes to my computer, before ...

I try to use PsShutdown to schedule late sleep, restart and etc on Windows 7 machine.
In order to run the command manually I have to open the command window as Administrator first. So how can I do it ...

I would like to be able to use mklink without the inconvenience of right-clicking on cmd.exe and choosing "Run as Administrator". I am logged in at work as a domain user with local admin privileges, ...

I have a 64-bit DLL and I also have an installer for this dll. This installer registers the dll as com visible. To do this i have to be admin. Everything works fine so far and i also can use the dll ...

I am looking to review user account permissions across a Windows Domain Network. I want to get rid of computer accounts with local admin rights and replace them with regular user accounts. This is all ...

I can not run programs as Administrator, because I tried to do this, and modifying the value in the registry didn't do what I wanted to do, I thought that it would stop asking for passwords and let me ...

UAC helps protect the system from getting trashed by non-privileged apps. But how can I protect my data from getting trashed or misused by apps?
Example 1: An app silently modifies the tags in all my ...

Every time I try to move a file to a different location in My Documents or on the Desktop by dragging it I get a "Windows Security" alert telling me "These files might be harmful to your computer".
I ...

I know you can drag and drop a shortcut of a program you want to start after you log in automatically. "C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\" But what if a ...

My computer's OS appears to not be letting me run anything elevated. Anything I try that requires it eventually errors out, typically with a "path The specified module could not be found" error. This ...

All instructions I find say to run Notepad as Administrator and open the hosts file from there. Sounds logical, but when I try to save the hosts file I get the following error in a dialog box:
hosts
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In my school, we have low-level user accounts (obviously) so we can do everything we want, except changing important stuff etc.
However, the PC which was assigned to me has been having some issues, ...

I connect to a client's Server (Server 2012R2) via RDP.
I always get the UAC prompt when I start the SQL tools, managemant studio (SSMS) and data tools (SSDT). If I press cancel in the UAC dialog the ...

This is a follow-up to my earlier question:
How to force any program to run with no admin privileges in Windows 7?
First, I have no idea why there isn't an option to at least try running any program ...

I have a program which keeps on prompting when starting the windows.
I have searched lots threads even the thread on Selectively disabling UAC for specific programs on Windows 7
I tried everything in ...

I was trying to run cmd.exe as administrator in Windows 7 and I noticed that Windows didn't recognize it as being published by Microsoft Windows as it normally does. I tried a bunch of other commands ...

Each time I change a windows setting in control panel that requires admin a UAC (User account control) dialog pops up and this did not happen before. I am the main administrator on the computer and I ...

On my Windows 8.1 system, I have a folder called "D:\Benutzer\Alle\Musik" (I'm german, this is like Users/All/Music) which was linked to the Music library folder in windows. I decided to add my music ...

I have an issue with UAC, only when is executed for first time it delays at least one minute, after that, any task which requires it, the UAC promps in 2 or 3 seconds.
When I waiting that, I see in ...

Some time ago while visiting some web site in Opera 12.12 following Windows 7 UAC prompt appeared on screen:
C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe /c at 13:29:00 /every:T,M,Th,F,W,S,Su wmic.exe nicconfig where ...